The Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink is a three-day festival celebrating the outstanding food and drink of the South West, featuring more than one hundred regional producers, top chefs, workshops, live music and food-themed activities for all the family.
The festival, co-founded years ago by two-Michelin starred chef Michael Caines, is the perfect opportunity to get a real taste of the South West, to meet the people behind the produce, and to enjoy a foodie day or weekend in beautiful surroundings.
Visitors can learn from the best in the Festival Cookery...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend.
THEATRE
Vienna Festival Ballet's 35th Anniversary Gala Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange Vienna Festival Ballet's reflection on 35 years of performing classical ballets all over the world will take you on an unforgettable journey through the best of ballet in one magical evening. Tickets £21 adults, £15 under 16s. http://www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Milked Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter A black comedy about friendship, unemployment – and a cow called Sandy. Tickets: £12/£8...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend.
THEATRE
Vienna Festival Ballet's 35th Anniversary Gala Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange Vienna Festival Ballet's reflection on 35 years of performing classical ballets all over the world will take you on an unforgettable journey through the best of ballet in one magical evening. Tickets £21 adults, £15 under 16s. http://www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Milked Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter A black comedy about friendship, unemployment – and a cow called Sandy. Tickets: £12/£8...
A new Street Food Market is opening in April at Piazza Terracina (Exeter Canal Basin) with a 23 meter hair-raising drop, live music, salsa dancing, reflexology taster session, cannoning and much more from the same organisers that have brought you the Exeter Street Food at the Guildhall Shopping Centre and the Historic Exeter Quay, Exeter.
So what did you planed for the third Thursday Night in April? Well thanks to the new market at Piazza Terracina night market you could be eating some delicious street food, having a drink, getting a quick foot massage and then throwing yourself...
Bella Italia, the family-friendly Italian restaurant, has placed the future of its kids menu in the hands of some of the country’s toughest customers – children aged from three to 11.
With an established reputation for family-friendly service (that’s official as Mumsnet has awarded Bella for the development of its family-focused dining with an Innovation Award!), Bella decided to go a step further and allow boys and girls to rip up the rulebook and rebuild the way in which its restaurants cater for their younger customers.
Throughout the project, which spanned over a year,...
PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. The format means that you don't need to be an experienced presenter or particularly confident to carry of a gripping presentation, you just need to be passionate about your topic. Fr more information visit www.pechakucha.org
20/02/15 Theme : "Design in your city"
To celebrate the anniversary of PechaKucha, we are joining in with the global night on 20th of February....
The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter is THE first hotel in the UK to launch a Paleo package.
Unavailable anywhere else in the country, this unique break gives guests the chance to experience an entirely Paleo friendly escape.
A diet which has seen skyrocketing popularity in recent months, the Paleo plan is based on the diet of the Paleolithic era. Also known as the Hunter Gatherer, Caveman or Stone Age diet, Paleo is high in meat and low in complex carbohydrates from sources like grains. It is also entirely gluten free.
Hotel General Manager Fiona Moores said: “Here at...
The Magdalen Chapter will be offering a decadent pancake feast this Shrove Tuesday.
On Tuesday 17 February, not only will a full pancake menu be on offer throughout the day in the hotel restaurant, but a pancake inspired cocktail will be served in the bar too.
At breakfast, choose between classic American pancakes served with bluberry compote or bacon and maple syrup. Through lunch and into dinner, savoury pancakes of smoked salmon with dill crème fraiche, and roast butternut squash, spinach and stilton with a hazlenut dressing can be enjoyed. Puddings too of classic lemon...
Award winning local cookery school and school catering company, Fun Kitchen and Fresha, today announced the launch of a new joint healthy eating venture for schoolchildren in and around Exeter.
The new ‘Teach and Eat’ programme has been set up to help primary schools deliver healthy eating through fun hands-on classroom cookery teaching and fresh locally sourced school meals to eat.
An evening launch of the ‘Teach and Eat’ initiative is to be held on Tuesday, February 24 at Fresha HQ in Sowton, Exeter featuring a programme of talks designed to help primary head teachers...
The Seed Fund 2015 has launched its search for a food and drink brand with the growth potential to be the proud recipient of £100,000 worth of business, branding and marketing resources.
Designed to offer brand and marketing support, business and commercial advice and expert sector business mentoring, The Seed Fund is a fantastic springboard for future growth and specifically helps food brands find the right brand positioning and route to market. Now in its third year, the fund is a collaboration between three successful South West consultancies who have combined their food brand...
